The Analytic Network Process -- Forecasting the Resurgence of the U.S. Economy in 2001: An Expert Judgement Approach -- An Analytic Network Process Model for Financial-Crisis Forecasting -- Outsourcing a Firm's Application Development Group -- ANWR: Artic National Wildlife Refuge, an ANP...

Part I: Theory of Ecological Economics -- Introduction -- 1. The Economic System and the Environment -- 2. Industrial Ecology: Material and Energy Flows, Life Cycle Analysis -- 3. The Big Picture Vision and the Environment: An International Perspective -- 4. Economic Valuation and Decision...

This book offers a simple introduction to the fundamentals and applications of the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) without a pre-requisite for a sophisticated mathematical background. It provides a quick and intuitive understanding of the methodology using spreadsheet examples and explains in a...

The Analytic Network Process (ANP) developed by Thomas Saaty in his work on multicriteria decision making applies network structures with dependence and feedback to complex decision making. This book is a selection of applications of ANP to economic, social and political decisions, and also to...

This book provides essential insights into a range of newly developed numerical optimization techniques with a view to solving real-world problems. Many of these problems can be modeled as nonlinear optimization problems, but due to their complex nature, it is not always possible to solve them...

How to Make a Decision -- The Seven Pillars of the Analytic Hierarchy Process -- Architectural Design -- Why is the Principal Eigenvector Necessary? -- Designing a Mousetrap -- Designing the Best Catamaran -- The Selection of a Bridge -- Measuring Dependence Between Activities: Input Output...

Komplexität als Problemstellung in Dienstleistungsunternehmen -- Stand der Forschung zu Komplexität und ihren Wirkungen in Dienstleistungsunternehmen -- Konzeptioneller Bezugsrahmen der Komplexität und ihrer Wirkungen in Dienstleistungsunternehmen -- Analytic Network Process als Instrument...

1: Introduction -- 2: A new consistency test index for the data in the AHP/ANP.- 2.1 Basics of the AHP/ANP -- 2.1.1 The reciprocal pairwise comparison matrix -- 2.1.2 Basics of the AHP -- 2.1.3 Basics of the ANP -- 2.2 Consistency test issue in the AHP/ANP.- 2.2.1. Analysis of the consistency...

Practitioners in process industry have to increasingly adapt their global production networks to changes in the competitive environment. A majority of the supply network design models proposed by academia do not sufficiently capture the questions that have to be resolved. This book provides the...

What Is a Decision Problem? Designing Alternatives -- MCDA Approaches for Efficient Strategic Decision Making -- Collaborative Decision Making for Small Groups utilizing UTA Methods -- Disaggregation Approaches for Multicriteria Classification: An Overview -- Multiple Criteria Approaches for...